Huberta von voss biography of barack
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Huberta von Voss-Wittig runs a tight ship. She has to if she wants to hit her deadlines while commuting to New York twice a week, helping her children with their homework and accompanying her husband to high-profile diplomatic functions. In between, she regularly walks, swims and operates on five hours of sleep, while sneaking in the occasional power nap.
An accomplished journalist and author, Huberta von Voss-Wittig is the wife of German Ambassador Peter Wittig and the mother of four children, ages 7 to 25. She is currently the New York correspondent for ICON, a prestigious fashion and lifestyle supplement to Germany’s Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
Photos: Matt Mendelsohn for German Embassy
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Huberta von Voss-Wittig joins Board of Trustees of Leo Baeck Institute—New York | Berlin
Huberta von Voss-Wittig, a German reporter and Think Tank executive, will join the Board of Trustees of the Leo Baeck Institute—New York | Berlin (LBI), strengthening the Jewish archive and library’s ties to Germany. Based in the Center for Jewish History in New York, the LBI safeguards more than 80,000 books and millions of archival documents from centuries of German-Jewish history, many of which were saved by refugees who fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The Institute serves scholars who study German-Jewish history and conducts public outreach to increase awareness of the long history of Jewish life in German
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Preface
Yehuda Bauer
Prologue
Huberta von Voss
Acknowledgements
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Between Ararat and the Caucasus: Portrait of a Tiny Country in Five Lessons
Tessa Hofmann
Chapter 2. The Armenian Genocide: An Interpretation
Vahakn N. Dadrian
Chapter 3. The Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide in its European Context
Taner Akçam
Chapter 4. The Silent Partner: Imperial Germany and the Young Turks’ Policy of Annihilation
Wolfgang Gust
PART II: PORTRAITS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
HistoryChapter 5. The Investigator: Vahakn N. Dadrian, Genocide Scholar (Cambridge, MA)
Huberta von Voss
Chapter 6. A Foundation of Facts and Fiction: The Poet and Writer Peter Balakian (Hamilton, NY)
Huberta von Voss
Chapter 7. The Memory of Cilicia: Claude Mutafian, Historian and Mathematician (Paris)
Dorothea Hahn
Chapter 8. Lord of the Books: Vartan Gregorian, President of the Carn